{"id":10390,"date":"2025-10-19T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/10390\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:01:21","slug":"thousands-walk-in-tampa-to-raise-money-for-alzheimers-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/10390\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands walk in Tampa to raise money for Alzheimer\u2019s research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Thousands filled Benchmark Arena and the surrounding streets in downtown Tampa on Saturday for the Walk to End Alzheimer\u2019s, raising more than $380,000 to support care, support, and research for people living with the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers with the Alzheimer\u2019s Association said the funds will be directed to local care and support services, as well as research into treatments and prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Florida has the second-highest number of residents living with Alzheimer\u2019s in the nation, and many participants said hope is growing with new FDA\u2011approved treatments that may slow the disease\u2019s progression for some patients.<\/p>\n<p>The event, part of the Alzheimer\u2019s Association\u2019s national Walk to End Alzheimer\u2019s program,  included memory gardens, survivor ceremonies, and teams walking in honor of loved ones affected by dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers and health partners were on hand to provide information about caregiving resources, clinical trials, and how to access local support programs.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Walk to End Alzheimer\u2019s or to learn how to support local programs, click <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/region-hillsborough\/alz.org\/walk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trending_Video_TampaBay28.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Concrete company responds after multiple drivers say repaving project damaged their cars<\/p>\n<p>Weeks after drivers started reaching out to Tampa Bay 28 about damage to their vehicles, we\u2019re finally hearing from the contractor behind the Tyrone Boulevard repaving project.<\/p>\n<p>Concrete company responds after multiple drivers say repaving project damaged their cars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Thousands filled Benchmark Arena and the surrounding streets in downtown Tampa on Saturday for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,10017,10018,276,7352,135,3670,137,136,10019,208],"class_list":["post-10390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abc-action-news","tag-alzheimers","tag-alzheimers-research","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-research","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-walk-to-end-alzheimers","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}